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Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I hope it's better than the fairphone 3. Poor performance on that completely undermines the whole "last phone you'll ever need".

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    I really wish one day they can reach framework level of industrial design. For a framework laptop, I would imagine it can last at least 5-8 years, all with great performance and upgradablity.

    Phone on the other hand it very different. It is hard to upgrade SOC (which i believe is a OS limitation?). Although they have 5(probably 7 based on their record) years of system update, I really dont expect the phone to be usable after maybe 4 years.

    At this point, I would probably go for a pixel with graphene and a case and screen protector. I really don't expect my phone to break that many times during 5 years, if it does, i will just grub thepart from ifixit and spend a afternoon to fix it. And grapheneos will provide 5 years of OS update with speedy security patch.

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